America's Third Party: David Jon Sponheim for President

ELECTION INFO: SECRETARY OF STATE
Phone: (404) 656-2871
STATE-ISTICS: STATE INFORMATION

Major party qualifications:

Received more than 20% of the votes for president
and vice president in the last presidential election or
received 1% of the votes in the last general state
election [21-2-191]

Primary ballot access:

Party submits a list of candidates to appear on the
primary ballot to the Secretary of State [21-2-193]
Deadline: December 31 [21-2-193]
No filing fees [21-2-198]

General ballot access for minor party candidates:

File notice of candidacy
Certify that the candidate was nominated by
convention [21-2-170 & 21-2-172]
Petition: 1% of total votes from previous
presidential election (in 2004 this will be
approximately 27,742 signatures)[21-2-170]
Circulate no earlier than 180 days before the
deadline [21-2-170]
Deadline: between 9 am the fourth Monday in
June and 12 noon the second Tuesday in July
[21-2-132]

General ballot access for independent candidates:

File notice of candidacy
Petition: 1% of total votes from previous presidential
election (in 2004 this will be approximately 25,742
signatures) [21-2-170]
Circulate no earlier than 180 days before the
deadline [21-2-170]
Deadline: between 9 am the fourth Monday in June
and 12 noon the second Tuesday in July [21-2-132]

Last day to withdraw from the ballot:

60 days
before the election

Primary date: first Tuesday in March [21-2-191]
Participation: Open primary

Source:
The Reform Institute (December 2003). Presidential Ballot Access: State by State Scorecard. Retrieved November 10, 2008, from https://www.policyarchive.org/bitstream/handle/10207/5646/2003scorecard.....

Write-In Information

For Georgia, in order to be eligible as a write-in candidate for President, there is a multi-step process:

1) You need to send a formal letter of intent to run as a write-in candidate for President and Vice-President, accompanied by a request for the forms that you will need to fill out. You send this letter to:

Mike McCarthy
Director of Elections
Sec. of State Elections Division
2 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SE
West Tower, Ste. 1104
Atlanta, GA 30334

2) You also need to publish a notice of your intent to run for President as a write-in candidate in a newspaper of general circulation in the state of Georgia, which would be the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. You need to get an affidavit of publication from the paper, and a copy of the publication itself. You can publish this notice anytime between JANUARY 1, 2008 and SEPTEMBER 1, 2008.

THE PUBLICATION NEEDS TO CONTAIN THE CANDIDATES NAME, THE OFFICE HE IS RUNNING FOR, AND THE DATE OF THE ELECTION. USE THE LANGUAGE OF THE FORM PROVIDED BY THE ELECTIONS OFFICE, BUT YOU ONLY NEED THESE THREE ITEMS OF INFORMATION, NOT THE ADDRESS, ETC.

3) Complete and send the form received from the GA elections division to them, accompanied by the affidavit of publication and a copy of the newspaper notice itself. All of this is due by September 1, 2008, but can be filed at any time before then.

Source:
Frank Moore (May 8, 2008). US Presidential Write-In Candidate Requirements For Each State. Retrieved November 10, 2008, from http://www.writein2008.blogspot.com/